11:01 PM,
Jan. 4, 2014

This property just north of the Blue Ridge Parkway is one of two parcels for which developer Biltmore Farms has withdrawn rezoning requests.

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Local developer Biltmore Farms has dropped for now two requests to rezone property near the Blue Ridge Parkway for commercial use.

But the developer is going ahead with a third request to Buncombe County government that it change the zoning from residential to commercial on property on Brevard Road, about half a mile north of the parkway in Bent Creek.

Biltmore Farms Vice President Lee Thomason said the company has "no specific projects" in mind for any of the properties at this time. ...